| attach | noun (n.) An attachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship. |
| | verb (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery. |
| | verb (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. |
| | verb (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. |
| approach | noun (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. |
| | verb (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. |
| | verb (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. |
| | verb (v. t.) To take approaches to. |
| | verb (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. |
| | verb (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near. |
| | verb (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances. |
| | verb (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. |
| | verb (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. |
| | verb (v. i.) See Approaching. |
| breach | noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise. |
| | noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A bruise; a wound. |
| | noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture. |
| | noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
| | verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
| broach | noun (n.) A spit. |
| | noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. |
| | noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. |
| | noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. |
| | noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting. |
| | noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower. |
| | noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. |
| | noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. |
| | noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. |
| | noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. |
| | noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit. |
| | noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. |
| | noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores. |
| | noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. |
| | noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out. |
| | noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. |
| | noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. |
| coach | noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. |
| | noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. |
| | noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. |
| | noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. |
| | verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with |
| impeach | noun (n.) Hindrance; impeachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent. |
| | verb (v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. |
| | verb (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. |
| leach | noun (n.) See 3d Leech. |
| | noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali. |
| | noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc. |
| | noun (n.) See Leech, a physician. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee. |
| | verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes. |
| | verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation. |
| poach | noun (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. |
| | noun (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. |
| | verb (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. |
| | verb (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling |
| | verb (v. t.) To begin and not complete. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become soft or muddy. |
| reach | noun (n.) An effort to vomit. |
| | noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot. |
| | noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity. |
| | noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope. |
| | noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land. |
| | noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage. |
| | noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To retch. |
| | verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear. |
| | verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell. |
| | verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. |
| | verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. |
| | verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend. |
| | verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive. |
| | verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand. |
| | verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts. |
| | verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. |
| | verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam. |
| stomach | noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric. |
| | noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. |
| | noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. |
| | noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. |
| | noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be angry. |
| shade | noun (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. |
| | noun (n.) An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. |
| | noun (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. |
| | noun (n.) Shadow. |
| | noun (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. |
| | noun (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. |
| | noun (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. |
| | noun (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. |
| | noun (n.) To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To obscure; to dim the brightness of. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with gradations of light or color. |
| | verb (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. |
| shadow | noun (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1. |
| | noun (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. |
| | noun (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. |
| | noun (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. |
| | noun (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. |
| | noun (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. |
| | noun (n.) A small degree; a shade. |
| | noun (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. |
| | noun (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. |
| | noun (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen. |
| | noun (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. |
| | noun (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. |
| | noun (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. |
| | noun (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. |
| | noun (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. |
| shack | noun (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. |
| | noun (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage. |
| | noun (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest. |
| | verb (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp. |
| | verb (v. i.) A hut; a shanty; a cabin. |
| shackle | noun (n.) Stubble. |
| | noun (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. |
| | noun (n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament. |
| | noun (n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis. |
| | noun (n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc. |
| | noun (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. |
| | verb (v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber. |
| | verb (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. |
| shaft | noun (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. |
| | noun (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. |
| | noun (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. |
| | noun (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
| | noun (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
| | noun (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
| | noun (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
| | noun (n.) The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. |
| | noun (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
| | noun (n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
| | noun (n.) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. |
| | noun (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird. |
| | noun (n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. |
| | noun (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
| shagreen | noun (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. |
| | noun (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. |
| | adjective (a.) Alt. of Shagreened |
| | verb (v. t.) To chagrin. |
| shake | noun (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly. |
| | noun (n.) A fissure in rock or earth. |
| | noun (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. |
| | noun (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart. |
| | noun (n.) A shook of staves and headings. |
| | noun (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground. |
| | verb (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate. |
| | verb (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. |
| | verb (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music. |
| | verb (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter. |
| | () obs. p. p. of Shake. |
